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...first day on the stand, Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins hurled in a grenade. Grey, prow-jawed "Lightning Joe" was asked whether MacArthur had ever disobeyed a directive. Bradley and Marshall had said no. Said General Collins: "There was one specific incident that did occur . . . one of the instructions that the Joint Chiefs had issued to General MacArthur was that he would not use anything but Korean troops on the [Yalu] frontier, and he did not comply with that. He sent American forces directly to the frontier without advising us ahead of time on it, and when...
...night of Dec. 22, while the Ridgways were attending a party next door to their house, the general was called to the telephone. He talked briefly to Lawton Collins, then rejoined the party. Next morning, over coffee in their second-floor study, he said gently, "Penny, I've got something to tell you. I'm going to Korea to replace Johnny Walker, who's been hurt...
...came out of West Point in 1917 with Army Chief of Staff Lawton Collins and Lieut. General Matthew Ridgway. Between the World Wars he served in China, Hawaii and the U.S. The Army installed him as professor of military science at C.C.N.Y. Subsequently he held the same post at the University of Illinois...
...lethal punch, and is fitted to a gyroscopic sight which keeps the gun on target over the sharpest bumps. Weighing only 25.8 tons, it can be transported by air, is already in limited production at the Army's Cleveland plant. At Aberdeen last week, Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins officially christened the T-41 the "Walker Bulldog," in honor of the late General Walton ("Little Bulldog") Walker, the Eighth Army's commander, who died in a jeep accident in Korea. Collins, admitting that the first U.S. light tanks in Korea had been unable to stand...
...Last week Army Secretary Frank Pace and Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins pinned the first Korean campaign ribbons (blue with white stripes) on three wounded veterans in Washington's Walter Reed hospital...